Genes, Organisms Populations

by Brandon, Robert N.; Burian, Richard M.

• ISBN13: 9780262521154
• ISBN10: 0262521156
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-08-28
• Publisher: Bradford Books

Summary

Natural selection and the controversial issues over the units of selection are the subject of these seventeen essays which are grouped in sections that focus on the history of the topic, discuss the levels and units of selection, and present kin, group, and hierarchical models of selection. Undergraduates and graduate students in philosophy and biology will find the anthology particularly useful in its coverage of the roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreedings, and selection in evolution, artifact, cause-and genie selection, replicators and vehicles, innate social aptitudes of man, and individual selection and the concept of structured denies. Robert N. Brandon is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department, Duke University. Richard M. Burian is Professor of Philosophy and Department Chairman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. A Bradford Book.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Historical Readings
Introduction	p. 2
Charles Darwin and Group Selection	p. 9
The Roles of Mutation, Inbreeding, Crossbreeding, and Selection in Evolution	p. 29
Theories of Group Selection	p. 40
Intergroup Selection in the Evolution of Social Systems	p. 42
C. Wynne-Edwards
Group Selection	p. 52
The Unity of Genotype	p. 69
Levels and Units of Selection: Conceptual Analyses
Introduction	p. 86
Reductionistic Research Strategies and Their Biases in the Units of Selection Controversy	p. 90
Artifact, Cause and Genic Selection	p. 109
The Levels of Selection	p. 133
Units of Evolution: A Metaphysical Essay	p. 142
Replicators and Vehicles	p. 161
Models of Selection: Kin, Group, and Hierarchical
Introduction	p. 182
Innate Social Aptitudes of Man: An Approach from Evolutionary Genetics	p. 193
The Theory of Kin Selection	p. 203
Group Selection	p. 238
A Critical Review of the Models of Group Selection	p. 250
Individual Selection and the Concept of Structured Demes	p. 272
The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection: A Hierarchical Expansion	p. 292
Acknowledgments	p. 321
Index	p. 323
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